results of the title giveaway

[swan_tower]

Last week I solicited title suggestions and promised to give away a signed copy of Cold-Forged Flame to one person.

In the usual way of my brain, it did not settle on any of the proposed titles — but receiving all those possibilities finally provoked it into getting off its posterior and coming up with something that it liked. (This really is how my brain works. When I was in junior high and got the Elfquest roleplaying game book, which I used to make up characters to tell stories with instead of for use in the game, the entire section on generating your character’s appearance never got used the intended way. I would roll the dice, decide I didn’t like the suggested result, roll again, reject the second result, rinse and repeat until I made up my mind what I wanted to pick off the list.)

But I promised a giveaway, and a giveaway you shall have! Our lucky winner is Joshua of The Rabbit Hole. Drop me a line and claim your prize!

. . . what’s that you ask? You want to know what the title I settled on is?

You’ll find out next spring, when I intend to release the collection in question. 🙂 Until then, you must live in suspense!

(But I’ll give you this hint. I wound up deciding that I liked it because of an unexpected echo of something in Diana Wynne Jones’ novel Fire and Hemlock, which is the book that made me a writer.)

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[sovay]

(But I'll give you this hint. I wound up deciding that I liked it because of an unexpected echo of something in Diana Wynne Jones' novel Fire and Hemlock, which is the book that made me a writer.)

Here, Now, and Nowhere?

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

You have correctly guessed which bit of the book it echoes, although the title itself is different. :-) (And I'll admit that part of the reason I haven't shared it is that I know I may fiddle with the exact phrasing between now and the actual release.)

[sovay]

You have correctly guessed which bit of the book it echoes, although the title itself is different.

My actual first thought was Here and Nowhere, but your right to tinker is reserved.